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On the side of the path near the steep walk, the forest owner has tried to fix his forest again after the hurricane we had here between Christmas and New Years Eve.
This is a 16 years old tree.

So, here's that open field again, but now the sun has set and the beautiful colours show. I'm so happy I desided to quit smoking a couple of years ago and most of all that I desided to go out, away from my sofa, and exercise.
Otherwise I would not have experienced the beautiful nature around me.

In Italy they got their leaning tower of Piza. Here in Kristiansund we got the leaning spruce of Frei (haha).
Final picture from my trip today, so thanks for walking with me....

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Oh, well..., thank you!
It might have to do with a certain someone licking sunshine who led me towards a great editing tool. I don't know.
But as I told the world in other threads, I like Morten Krogvold and what he stands for in photography. He points out that a good picture is all about the photographer, so....
But hey, thanks again!

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How could Inot go walking with you when #163/1 is such a great start! …with the white snow and blue sky it almost looks as if the wood is a magic floating island!

I could spend ages commenting on every single photo, but instead tried to decide what it was that many of my favourite ones had in common. I think it was where something, one tree say, is different from the rest. And that in conjunction with something to complete the composition.
So there was the straight trunk of the dead tree in #163/6 with the sunlit small tree on the bottom right completing the composition.

164/2 with the fantastically shaped branch cutting across the frame from the bright red T, the more distant and just sufficiently out of focus branches echoing the angle and shape.

In 164/4 it is that one broken branch that attracts. I imagine you might have had to look around to find a satisfactory place to stand (and where it was actually possible to stand with all the undergrowth!) to take this photo…it is the dark green on the bottom left which has come to your rescue.

Maybe the next image 164/5 works even better…old trunk and gnarled branches reaching out, set against more regimented straight trees, and that slanted V-shaped sky. It ought to look muddled but it absolutely doesn’t.
Whereas although I giggled at the Leaning Spruce of Frei…it was for me a less successful image. Perhaps difficult to find a spot from which to get the other things in the frame that make a really wow photo.

But apart from trees, there’s the Ice Stream! …and wow you got the technique with running water in #165/2 perfect, and in company with those ice crystals it looks truly amazing. The rounded globular shapes of the ice are fascinating, quite different from the spiky frosty shapes which pakarang photographed recently. Love the close up detail of the ice in photo 6 and the browns and black-blues with just the right amount of flowing water in photo 4.

The tree rings 166/1 with the snow on the branch…for me the absolute winner of the walk!

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....I just posted chronological the images from my first walk this year...

See, you are taking great images even without trying!
I have often taken photos of such walks along paths and trails, just snaps to remind myself of the sequence and route, and I enjoy reliving those walks by looking back on them, but mine are not really photography, more the lazy “grown-up” equivalent of the little maps and sketches and giving names to features and places that I used to do as a child.

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Mr. Håkon Visnes has made a movie again flying his camera model airplane over the Orsetra area, Freikollen and residential area Storbakken on the south side of Frei.
In the movie you'll recognize Reinsfjell and the suspentionbridge in the mainland connection of Kristiansund.
Håkon himself say that he's just playing around with his new plane, and I belive it is slightly more unstable around the roll axis.
Anyway, highlight of the movie is when he takes us over the top of Freikollen over 600 meters up, then dive down the south side of the mountain.

As always, he knows very well what music he should pick for his movies. Take a look:

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Finally, it was time (and weather) to test my new Tamron 18-200mm lense bought Friday.
In a few threads in here, I've posted pictures with info that they were taken by this lense, not knowing if you looked into this or those other threads first.
Anyway, I went down to Viken farm to test it, and here we go:

A pond in a tracktor track in the forest on my way down to the farm

The very high tide during hurricane 'Dagmar' around new year left many a small thing on dry land

A flowery straw naked from last year. We're all waiting for summer now...

994 meters high Reinsfjell with the low land wooden Aspøy in the foreground across the fjord from Bjerkestrand

Down by the Viken farm. Close to the stony seagull..., as 'Seagull' would know so well

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